Radical behaviorism

Antonio’s ‘Looking Glass Self’ influence by Agents of Socialization The theory of looking glass self was developed by Charles H. Cooley in 1902. In this theory, Cooley explains how the people around us affect living behaviors. In this regard, the theory of looking glass self can be used to explain the desire of Antonio to change his bullying behavior. According to Cooley, when an individual identifies what other people think about him/her, it may bring about feelings of self-doubt and…

1.9 DEFINITION OF TERM 1.9.1 Stress management: That refers to the wide spectrum of techniques and psychotherapies aimed at controlling a person's levels of stress, especially chronic stress, usually for the purpose of improving everyday functioning. 1.9.2 Physiology: From Ancient Greek (physis), meaning "nature, origin", and (-logia), meaning "study of" is the scientific study of the normal function in living systems. A sub-discipline of biology, its focus is in how organisms, organ systems…

Eysenck (2005) conceded that Albert Bandura was one of the first psychologists to introduce that learning theory incorporated mental processes.In addition, social learning theory purports that learnt behavior is not always dependent on direct conditioning (Eysenck, 2005). Moreover, social learning theory deals directly with why the amount and type of aggression differ between people and that human learn to aggress by watching aggressive models (Worchel, 1995). Worchel (1995) notes that each of…

Paul Pierre Broca talked about ‘le grand lobe limbique’ in 1878 or the great limbic lobe and used the term “limbic” (from the Latin limbus for border) to the rounded rim of the cortex which also has the cingulate and the parahippocampalgyri. However, its supposed role in emotion was elaborated by the American physician, James Papez in 1937 in the influential paper titled ‘A proposed mechanism of emotion’. This anatomical model is called the Papez circuit.[2] In the year of 1948 scientist…

The Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SRQ) Self-regulation is the ability to develop, implement, and flexibly maintain planned behavior in order to achieve one's goals. Building on the foundational work of Frederick Kanfer (Kanfer, 1970a, 1970b), Miller and Brown formulated a seven-step model of self-regulation (Brown, 1998) (Miller & Brown, 1991). In this model, behavioral self-regulation may falter because of failure or deficits at any of these seven steps: 1. Receiving relevant information 2.…

Operant conditioning is one type of learning behaviour theory that developed by B. F. Skinner in 1938. It is a behaviour designed to people in a way that will gain something desired or avoiding something unpleasant. It is also known as Law of Effect. Furthermore, learning behaviour is controlled by the consequences of the behaviour itself which are reinforcement or punishment. Besides, both consequences have their own positive and negative event which will result new behaviour development in…

1.0. INTRODUCTION TO SPORTS AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY Sports Psychology is defined formally as the study of effect of psychological and emotional factors on sport and exercise output. It can be read as sports and exercise involvement on psychological and emotional factors. Theories and techniques of sports psychology is broadly discussed under Applied sports psychology . Many techniques improves performance and personal growth in sports people. Exercise psychology works with the general…

Altruistic behavior is when people help others without expecting anything in turn, and sometimes even at a cost of themselves. This essay will compare and contrast two theories that explain altruism in humans. Those two theories are the kin selection theory, which is a biological explanation, and the empathy-altruism theory, which is a cognitive explanation. First approach to explain altruism is the kin selection theory that based on evolution theory. The kin selection theory is about the idea…

Erinn Payne Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning Classical conditioning refers to a kind of learning in which a stimulus obtains the ability to evoke a response which was initially evoked by a different stimulus (Weiten, 2010, p. 225). Classical conditioning is a learning theory developed by Ivan Pavlov (Olson & Hergenhahn, 2009, p.30), a Russian physiologist, in about 1900 (Weiten, 2010, p. 225) when he made an accidental discovery upon noticing that dogs salivate at the sight of food during his…

A retrospective study of a training program this time concentrating on Seizure Response Dogs by Kirton et al. [91] reported similar benefits in QOL. Records on animals' details, training programs, response and alerting signals, reliability and effect on seizures’ frequency were obtained. Twenty-two patients took part in the study, all with an established diagnosis of epilepsy validated by a neurologist and with 87% having a childhood-onset epilepsy. In average there were 36 seizures/ month with…